Articles by Marc

As it goes, WordPress is one of the easier-to-use publishing tools available to not only install and configure, but to administer on a daily basis. This doesn’t mean it’s easy. However, after many years of constant development, today’s WordPress is a powerful publishing platform without all of the unnecessary back-end confusion that plagues many other…

Improving the typography of your WordPress website by implementing a new selection of custom fonts is a great way to not only improve the readability of your content, but also create visually appealing elements with comparative ease. The impact of typography on your website visitors is something that should be very high on your priority…

A Local Environment, also known as a Localhost, is basically an offline web server that you run from your own computer. As it is using files stored on your hard drive, websites as well as all other scripts and software will run much faster than if it were online. This makes it easy to develop…

jQuery is a collection of web tools, a feature-rich library, written in JavaScript. It was designed to aid in the development of websites. In a lot of cases, using jQuery allows you to access the functions and features of JavaScript much faster, enabling you to write less, but do more. Way back in 2005 jQuery…

You may have seen advertisements that cover a website’s entire background. These clickable background images are called Takeover Ads as they can literally takeover the entire appearance of a website for maximum exposure. Implementing clickable background advertisements into WordPress themes is a straight-forward process and can be accomplished in no time at all, using just…

Using modern web technologies such as HTML5, and web API’s, implementing videos into your WordPress website has never been so pain-free. You can transform any standard blog into a fully loaded video website using just a handful of free, hand-picked video plugins. In this article we shall sample a few of these video plugins that…